I'm starting this blog, as an outlet for my weight loss journey. To date it is private but I'm sure I'll let it be public soon enough. I'm hoping that putting this blog out there will help me to be accountable to myself and help me stay on track.
I'm currently overweight....obese to be correct. I have struggled with my weight for years, I've struggled with my weight more years than I haven't struggled. My current status is that I'm about 100 lbs over weight, if you go by the BMI charts at the doctors office probably more than that, but for what I consider healthy for me I'd say about 100 lbs.
So, recently I decided to embark on this journey yet again, to try yet another diet...hoping, wishing, that this would be the one for me. I've done various diets with various amounts of success...but nothing that really worked long term. But with the support of some great friends who blazed the trail before me, I'm starting the Fat Smash Diet.
I decided in August that I'd try this diet, sort of as a last ditch effort prior to talking seriously with my doctor about bariatriac surgery. I'm really only sort of interested in surgery, it seems so permanent, and scary, and not to mention not a sure thing. So I thought that since I've done weight watchers, LA weight loss, Atkins Diet, calorie counting, fasting etc, that I'd give this a shot as well.
I bought the book, read it and put it aside, I needed to let it set in. This (as the author Dr. Ian Smith puts it) is a lifestyle not a diet. There is a 9 day detox portion, in which you are supposed to smash all of your prior bad habits. I was skeptical...really how in 9 days can you completely change YEARS of habits....it can't be can it?
At this point I'm nearing desperate, so I'm giving it a shot. I started the diet on Wednesday, it is now Saturday...I'm about through with day 4, and I'm feeling great...I had headaches for the first couple days, my guess is from the lack of caffeine (although I think I've been cheating a bit with green tea....it says you can have 2 cups of herbal tea a day and I've had 1 cup of green tea a day), but today on day 4 I'm feeling better. No headaches, good energy (day 1&2 I was a little tired) and I'm actually enjoying what I'm eating.
The book recommends not weighing yourself until the end of the 9 days, but I'm not a patient person, so I weighed myself today. As of today I was down 3 lbs. I'm hoping that I can continue, complete the 9 days and continue to lose. I will try to update this blog weekly with my progress and, add foods that are working for me as well....if I have any LOL.
Stats:
Total weight to lose: 100
weight lost: -3
weight left tolose 97
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